Solidarity's deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann says his uncle has become the 1647th farmer to be killed since 1991 after his body was discovered on Tuesday

The 78-year-old uncle of Solidarity’s deputy general secretary, Dirk Hermann, has been killed in a farm attack, Beeld newspaper reported on Wednesday.

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Limpopo police spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Ronel Otto confirmed that the body of Frik Hermann was found on his farm near Alma in Limpopo on Tuesday.

He was found by a friend with his hands tied behind his back. He had been dead for a few days.

Dirk Hermann told the Afrikaans daily that his uncle had lived alone on his farm.

"My uncle’s number is 1647 – he is the 1647th farmer to be killed [since 1991, according the Transvaal Agriculture Union’s statistics].

"There won’t be any marches in the streets, he is just another number – the number before 1648. That makes me furious," said Hermann.

The Solidarity civil rights group last year launched an anti-crime campaign and delivered 16,000 letters to President Jacob Zuma ahead of his state-of-the-nation address, appealing to him to take action against sky-high crime rates. Sapa